Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

11/12/2021

Festival Reviews

Dear Thomas

Dear Thomas

Director Andreas Kleinert’s prize-winning Cold War bio-drama Dear Thomas pays compelling but indulgent tribute to East German literary outlaw Thomas Brasch.

When Pomegranates Howl

When Pomegranates Howl

With sensitivity and devastating last-scene irony, filmmaker and poet Granaz Moussavi cinematically embeds the viewer in children’s lives in the heart of war-torn Kabul, in Australia’s Oscar hopeful.

Nr. 10

Nr. 10

Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam takes darkly comic gloom to a new level with his audaciously weird tenth film, Nr. 10.

Runner

Runner

This cat-and-mouse chase thriller offers an opaque commentary on love as a form of psychosis and the paranoid political mood in post-Soviet Lithuania,

Dear Thomas

Dear Thomas

Director Andreas Kleinert’s prize-winning Cold War bio-drama Dear Thomas pays compelling but indulgent tribute to East German literary outlaw Thomas Brasch.

When Pomegranates Howl

When Pomegranates Howl

With sensitivity and devastating last-scene irony, filmmaker and poet Granaz Moussavi cinematically embeds the viewer in children’s lives in the heart of war-torn Kabul, in Australia’s Oscar hopeful.

Nr. 10

Nr. 10

Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam takes darkly comic gloom to a new level with his audaciously weird tenth film, Nr. 10.

Awards Corner

Tallinn

  • Award for Best Film
    Dear Thomas (Germany)
    Director: Andreas Kleinert
  • Award for First Feature Jury Prizes
    Immersion (Chile, Mexico)
    Director: Nicolás Postiglione
  • Award for Best Director
    The Wedding Day (Poland, Latvia)
    Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Award for Best Screenplay
    The Wedding Day (Poland, Latvia)
    Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Award for Best Cinematography
    The List of Those Who Love Me (Turkey)
    Emre Tanyildiz
  • Award for Best Actress
    No Looking Back (Russia)
    Sofia Krugova
  • Award for Best Actor
    Dear Thomas (Germany)
    Albrecht Schuch
  • Award for Best Original Score
    The Wait (Finland)
    Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Award for Best Production Design
    Perpetuity (Hungary)
    Anna Nyitrai
  • Award for First Feature Competition
    Other Cannibals (Germany)
    Director: Francesco Sossai